Waistband fastener

ABSTRACT

Waistband fastener has identical hooking parts. Will not be damaged in laundry or dry cleaning pressing operation. Broad side of staple points are perpendicular to line of pull, giving fastener considerable strength against pull-out.

United States Patent [191 Daddona, Jr.

11] 3,815,183 451 June 11,1974

1 1 WAISTBAND FASTENER [75] Inventor: Domenic John Daddona,Jr.,

Waterbury, Conn.

[73] Assignee: Scovill Manufacturing Company,

Waterbury, Conn.

[22] Filed: June 15, 1972 [21] Appl. No.: 263,150

[52] US. Cl. 24/227, 24/201 HH [51] Int. Cl A44b 13/00 [58] Field of Search 24/225, 226, 227, 230 G, 24/201 HH, 201 HP, 201 HE, 201 HL;

[56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS Westphal 24/201 HH 2,697,221 12/1954 Brayton 24/227 2,778,082 1/1957 Stoughton 24/227 3,305,906 2/l967 Patrick 24/227 Primary Examiner-Fran'cis K. Zugel Assistant Examiner-Kenneth J. Dorner Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Dallett Hoopes [5 7] ABSTRACT Waistband fastener has identical hooking parts. Will not be damaged in laundry or dry cleaning pressing operation. Broad side of staple points are perpendicular to line of pull, giving fastener considerable strength against pull-out.

2 Claims, 6 Drawing igures PATENTEDJUN 11 m4 3Q815L183 WAISTBAND FASTENER This invention relates to a waistband fastener. More specifically, this invention relates to a waistband fastener of the hooking type in which the two hooking elements are identical.

In the prior art, there have been many waistband fasteners. The most popular form of waistband fastener has been the so-called hook and bar. In these prior devices, the bar element is stapled to one side of the apparel opening while the hook is stapled to the other side. In use, the hook is simply brought over the bar element to engage it.

There have been many objections to the hook-andbar-type fastener. Obviously, it requires the manufacture and stocking of two separate fastener elements. In addition, the major objection has been that in the routine pressing of the garment with a steam press, for instance, the pressure has collapsed either the hook or the bar, usually the bar, making its engagement with the hook thereafter difficult or impossible.

Other. features of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from a study of the following specification including the drawings, all of which dis- In installation, the points l6, 18 are closed down inwardly of the anchor plate 24 and are flattened against the depression defined by the remote side of the ridge 26 so that the outer surface'of the points 16, 18 are generally in the same plane as the outer surface of the adjacent portions of the anchor plate to make a flat, compact, assembly.

FIG. 3 shows the interhooking of the fastener elements of a complete assembly. As shown, the bridge members 14 and 14" flatly engage each other and the bight 20, elements are in edgewise engagement.

' The hooking legs 22, 22' may be in substantially flat engagement. This is possible because of the incline of the bights 20, 20.

FIG. 4 shows a complete assembly installed in a waistband. It should be noted that the fabric layers of each panel are doubledone layer on each side of the anchor plateso that the anchor plates are hidden from view. For strength, the broad side of 'each of the points 16, 18 is disposed perpendicular to the direction of pull, that is, the engaging and wearing strains. It should be noted that the distal ends of the hooking legs 22 are thinned in a taper as at 28, 28' to assist in the I hooking engagement. In the planar view (FIG. 3), the

close a non-limiting embodiment of the invention. In

the drawings: I

FIG. 1 is a front elevation view of a fastener embodying the invention as installed on a swatch of material and showing in phantom the anchor plate behind the material;

FIG. 2 is a side view of the assembly shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view showing two hooking elements engaged, taken in section through the staples as ends are rounded to avoid catching on the fabric.

FIG. 6 shows the tilting of the fastener in the dry cleaning operation. Such tilting obviously has no effect on the working of the fastener.

Itwill be seen that the two hooking elements of the fastener embodying the invention are identical as are the anchor plates so that only one hooking element and one anchor plate need be manufactured and stocked. Additionally, as suggested in FIG. 6, because each separate hooking assembly does not depend for its effectiveness on the spacing of the parts in the direction in which the press acts, the present fastener is not susceptible to collapse or to crushing in the steam pressing operation. Hence, two of the primary drawbacks of earlier waistband fasteners are eliminated.

While many variations of the embodiment of the invention shown are possible, the invention may be described by the following claim language.

I claim:

I. A waistband fastener assembly comprising a sheet metal hook, generally of J-shape and including a staplelike leg having a planar bridge element, a pair of destalled fastener is generally designated 10 in FIG. 1. It

As shown in FIG. 1, the impaling points 16 and 18 extend through the fabric F. As shown best in FIG. 5, an anchor plate 24 underlies the fabric F and comprises a rectangular plate having a stamped, flat, ridge 26 longitudinally thereof with a point-receiving notch 27 at either end thereof.

pending flat impaling points on the opposite ends thereof, a flat bight element extending laterally out at a right angle from one end of the bridge member, the bight element being inclined upwardly in a direction away from the impaling points, and a flat cantilevered hooking leg extending laterally from the upper end of the bight element in spaced parallel relation to the bridge element and back in the direction toward the other end of the bridge element, whereby the hooking leg-is to the side and is offset from the staple-like leg, the distal end of the cantilevered leg being rounded and thinned; and an anchor plate having a dimension only slightly less than the distance between the points and adapted to be received between the points whereby the points can be clinched over the plate, the anchor plate having a depression along said dimension adapted to receive the points so that when the points are clinched against the plate the points are flush with the surface of the plate remote from the hook.

2. A waistband fastener as claimed in claim 1 wherein the fastener comprises a second hook identical with the recited hook and the hooks are adapted to mutually engage each other in a hooking action with the bridge elements of the two hooks in edgewise contact, and the cantilevered legs in flat surface contact to provide a flat fastener. 

1. A waistband fastener assembly comprising a sheet metal hook, generally of J-shape and including a staple-like leg having a planar bridge element, a pair of depending flat impaling points on the opposite ends thereof, a flat bight element extending laterally out at a right angle from one end of the bridge member, the bight element being inclined upwardly in a direction away from the impaling points, and a flat cantilevered hooking leg extending laterally from the upper end of the bight element in spaced parallel relation to the bridge element and back in the direction toward the other end of the bridge element, whereby the hooking leg is to the side and is offset from the staple-like leg, the distal end of the cantilevered leg being rounded and thinned; and an anchor plate having a dimension only slightly less than the distance between the points and adapted to be received between the points whereby the points can be clinched over the plate, the anchor plate having a depression along said dimension adapted to receive the points so that when the points are clinched against the plate the points are flush with the surface of the plate remote from the hook.
 2. A waistband fastener as claimed in claim 1 wherein the fastener comprises a second hook identical with the recited hook and the hooks are adapted to mutually engage each other in a hooking action with the bridge elements of the two hooks in edgewise contact, and the cantilevered legs in flat surface contact to provide a flat fastener. 